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- 2041: The Life of Ernest Hemingway
- ... became pregnant and was sick all the time. She and Ernest decided to move to Canada. He had, by then written three stories and ten poems. Hadley gave birth to a boy who they named John Hadley Nicano Hemingway. Even though he had his family Ernest was unhappy and decided to return to Paris. It was in Paris that Ernest got word that a publisher wanted to print his book, In ... from his own life that he sees the world as his enemy. Johnson says, "He will solve the problem of dealing with the world by taking refuge in individualism and isolated personal relationships and sensations". John Killinger says that it was inevitable that Catherine and her baby would die. The theme, that a person is trapped in relationships, is shown in all Hemingway's stories. In A Farewell to Arms Catherine ...
- 2042: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... became pregnant and was sick all the time. She and Ernest decided to move to Canada. He had, by then written three stories and ten poems. Hadley gave birth to a boy who they named John Hadley Nicano Hemingway. Even though he had his family Ernest was unhappy and decided to return to Paris. It was in Paris that Ernest got word that a publisher wanted to print his book, In ... from his own life that he sees the world as his enemy. Johnson says, "He will solve the problem of dealing with the world by taking refuge in individualism and isolated personal relationships and sensations". John Killinger says that it was inevitable that Catherine and her baby would die. The theme, that a person is trapped in relationships, is shown in all Hemingway's stories. In A Farewell to Arms Catherine ...
- 2043: Aaron Burr Jr.
- ... was, probably, critical of the Commander-in-Chief, who he thought was only a slave-owner: an Indian fighter with little military training, who, up to that time, had won no great battle. So, through John Hancock's intervention, Burr was transferred to another front. He became an aide-de-camp to General Israel Putnam. In August 1716, Major Burr was assigned to General McDougal at Brooklyn, but, after the evacuation ... offered him a seat on the Supreme bench of that State. This Burr declined. In the election for President in the fall of 1796, rather to his surprise, Burr received 30 electoral votes, Jefferson 68, John Adams, 71. The Republicans had made great gains. But for the moment Burr was on the sidelines. His term in the Senate had expired, so he returned to his legal practice in New York City ...
- 2044: George Washington
- ... was better than that of any professional baseball player, he could have never thrown anything across the river. The most startling fact is that he wasn't even the first president. Our first president was John Hanson. He was elected president of the thirteen states in the Confederation. After Hanson, there were more before Washington. There was Elias Boudinot, Thomas Mifflin, Richard Henery and Cyrus Griffin. At the age of 17 ... for successive presidents that was not broken until 1940 when Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for a third term. Washington died in 1799 and was buried at Mount Vernon. Our American Presidents Joan Bumann and John Patterson copyright 1993 The Presidents Funk and Wagnalls copyright 1989 Presidents of the United States Richard O'Neil and Antonio D. Brian copyright 1992 Big Book of U.S. Presidents Victoria Sherrow copyright 1994 George ...
- 2045: Nathanial Hawthorne
- ... is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A decendant of a long puritan line of Hathorne's. His ancestry included his great-great grandfather, John Hathorne who was a judge at the Salem witch trials 112 years before Nathanial was born. Judge John Hathorne charged many with the crime of witchcraft,and condemned them to their deaths. Nathanial was embaressed by this and changed the spelling of his last name from Hathorne to Hawthorne. Alot of his family ...
- 2046: JFK: The Death of a Conspiracy
- JFK: The Death of a Conspiracy There is a plethora of conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. They range from the incumbent of the former Soviet Union to organized crime. Pro-conspiracy groups are in agreement with one theory; the United States government covered up the truth of the assassination ... 8). In addition to the three pathologists, there were two Navy enlisted men who served as autopsy technicians, three radiologists, and two photographers. One of the photographers was Bethesda's medical school chief of photography, John Stringer (2797). Dr. Humes was told personally by Rear Admiral Kenney, Surgeon General of the Navy, to find the cause of death (2796). According to Breo, Drs. Humes and Boswell thought that the autopsy should ...
- 2047: The Nomination of Andrew Jackson to the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
- ... had wanted to destroy Cherokee jurisdiction on it's land because gold had been found on it, and the state seeing the Indians as tenants on state land decided to "kick them out". Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Georgia had no jurisdiction to interfere with the rights of the Cherokee and removal of them would violate treaties between them and the U.S. Government. However, Jackson, not liking these decisions was reported of saying "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." It seems to me like a slap in Justice Marshall's face, that Jackson was and always will be an Indian fighter. I think he ...
- 2048: The Life and Work of Frederick Douglass
- ... the person in charge of the Underground Railroad. Here he also began the abolitionist newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860. In this time period, Douglass became friends with another well known American abolitionist, John Brown. Brown was involved with the Underground Railroad, and later wanted Douglass to join him on terroristic attacks on a United States government arsenal at Harper's Ferry. Douglass declined to participate in such activities. He fled, once again, to Europe, fearing that his association with John Brown might threaten him. He returned after several months, and aided in Abraham Lincoln's campaign for president. Frederick Douglass had many other achievements, mainly political, before dying in 1895, in Washington, D. C. Frederick ...
- 2049: Lyndon Johnson
- Lyndon Johnson Lyndon Johnson led the country for five years (1963-1968) after President John Fitzgerald Kennedy died of gunshot wounds on November 22, 1963. He formulated many policies and carried out many others that Kennedy could not finish. He faced many foreign problems as well, including the Vietnam War ... and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help and God's," quoted Lyndon Johnson after the assassination of friend, colleague, and leader President John Fitzgerald Kennedy at one-o'clock on November 22, 1963(Peter Lisagor, 151). Johnson took on the large role as president aboard the presidential Air Force jet at Love Field, Dallas exactly ninety-nine minutes ...
- 2050: Saint Francis of Assissi
- ... writings of Leo Battista Alberti, a century and a half later, or in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas. Bernardone was not in Assisi when his son was born. At first the child was called John but upon his father's return he was christened Francis, in memory of France, whence Pietro di Bernardone had just returned. More than any other character in history, St. Francis in after life retained the ... wits of Assisi, is uncertain. Whoever gave it to him, it was the obvious name for a boy wearing French cloth, talking with French visitors, and singing French tunes, the songs of troubadours and jongleurs. John Bernardone became Francis' early in life, and has remained Francis throughout the years since. Which dialect of French he spoke is unknown. Because he was called the Frenchman' and called his language French', it is ...
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